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Middle English Dictionary. The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. An invaluable resource for lexicographers, language scholars, and all scholars in medieval studies.
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Before the beginnings of large-scale modern lexicography in the 16th century and the development of the comparative method in the 18th, a scientific etymology (in the sense understood by modern linguistics) was not possible.
Etymology is the study of the history of individual words. The origins and developments of Medieval Latin words are extremely interesting in their own right, but for the DMLBS etymology is of particular importance because, although it is not generally used to order the senses and subsenses of a word (as in some dictionaries), the history of a ...
Etymology in the medieval sense of the term could involve a number of different processes: for example, aspects of word-formation, such as analysis of a compound or derivative, or explanation of a word in terms of onomatopoeia or sound-symbolism or by association with one or more similar-sounding words that were felt to shed light on the ...
Subject: General reference, Middle English. Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Dictionary, Glossary, Grammar, Textual Evidence. Geopolitical Region: British Isles and Ireland, Europe. Original Language: English, Middle English. Created by the Medieval Academy of America.
Detailed analysis of 55 words of previously “unknown” etymology. The book thoroughly explores the etymology and scholarly history of that etymology for each word. It’s more valuable for the explication of the etymological process than for the scope of words covered.
